Post, Pieter
Post, Pieter (1608–69). Dutch architect. He assisted van Campen at the Mauritshuis, The Hague (1630s), the Town Hall, Amsterdam (1648–55), and supervised the building of the Noordeinde Palace, The Hague (1640s), a dignified and serene building. Post designed the Huis ten Bosch, The Hague (1645–51—influenced by Palladio's Villa Capra, Vicenza), with its cruciform domed Oranjezaal (Orange Hall); the Waaghuis (Weigh-House), Leiden (1657–9), with a Tuscan Order on the rusticated base; and the handsome Town Hall, Maastricht (1656–64). His refined Palladian style can also be seen at the De Onbeschaamde House, 123–5 Wijnstraat, Dordrecht (1650–3). He may have designed the town-plan and several buildings at Mauritsstad, Brazil (1630s). His style had considerable influence on English architects, notably May, and he also built in Germany.
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Blok (1937);
Boogaart (ed.) (1979);
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